Pat-a-Cake and Other First Baby Games (Sesame Beginnings Series)

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Join the Sesame Street friends as they show parents and toddlers all the best baby games! In this sweet, colorful board book, parents can learn the directions for early-age games such as Pat-a-Cake, My Hands upon My Head, The Baby Mice, and The Apple Tree. Along with the rhyme on each spread, hand/movement directions and adorable Sesame Street baby characters are featured. Infants will be giggling over these playful games in no time, and parents will appreciate the motor and language skills exercises for their children. Both entertaining and useful, Pat-a-Cake and Other First Baby Games is an excellent tool for growing and learning.

Publishers Weekly

Sesame School Random House launches the Sesame Beginnings series, a line of board books designed to teach pre-literacy skills to babies and toddlers. The books are leveled 1-5 to correspond to different developmental stages, and the first book, Baby Faces by Wendy Cheyette Lewison, illus. by Christopher Moroney, connects the facial expressions of familiar Sesame Street characters with phrases such as "Boo-boo" and "Bye-bye." Peekaboo! I See You!, by the same team, engages youngsters with the familiar game; flaps lift to reveal the names of each character ("Someone is hiding. Do you know who? Peekaboo, Big Bird! I see you!). Cookie See! Cookie Do! by Anna Jane Hays, illus. by Barry Goldberg, uses gatefold spreads to highlight the growing physical competency of two-year-olds ("Elmo says, Reach up high. Stand up tall"). Toddlers learn simple games and songs in Pat-a-Cake and Other First Baby Games and Sing a Song of Sixpence and Other First Songs for Baby, both illus. by Tom Brannon. (May) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.